War Of The Worlds

The Columbia Broadcasting System and affiliated stations present Orton Wells and the Mercury Theater Army Air in the War of the World by H. G. Wells. Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the Mercury Theater and star of these broadcast, Orton Wells.

We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's, and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings visited themselves about their various concerns. They were scrutinized and studied. Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures, but swarm

and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence, people went to and fro the earth about their little affairs. So reen in the assurance of their dominion over this small, spinning fragment of solar driftwood, which by chance or design, man is inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space.

Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours as the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool, and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

In the 39th year of the 20th century came the great disillusionment. near the end of October. Business is better. The war scare was over. More men were back at work. Sales were picking up. On this particular evening, October 30, the Crosby Service estimated that 32 million people were listening in on radios.

Well, there's not much change in temperature. A slight atmospheric disturbance of undetermined origin is reported over Nova Scotia, causing a low pressure area to move down rather rapidly over the north east and states bringing a forecast of rain accompanied by wind of light gale force maximum temperature six to six minimum forty eight